Schmobius wrote:Black Rose wrote:Schmobius wrote:Why mirrored instead of military armor?
The majority of NPCs use beamed weapons and the reflective armor is meant to deal with that. The heavy armor plate gives you about 40% of the MGC resistance to kinetic weapons back.
MGC is 50% resistant to Energy and Kinetic weapons
Mirrored armor is 75% to Energy and 25% to Kinetic and the armor bulks back 40% so you have about 35% resistance to kinetic.
When you say the armor bulks back 40%, are you talking about using hull reinforcement packages on top of mirrored armor? I might be misunderstanding here.
Yes the hull reinforcement packages add armor to the ship and its meant to handle any kinetic damage that gets past the reflective armor.
I find the majority of NPCs use energy weapons. Of course a few use cannons or rail guns so its a toss up. Most people go with MGC as handles both weapon types at 50%. I used the reflective armor on my Imperial Eagle and on my Courier with pretty good success even though both ships are made of paper lol
Today in a Haz Res spot I had high speed head on with a Gunship. He was turbo boosting to me and I was turbo boosting to him. To quote Commander Kang from and old Star Trek episode it was "Glorious!"
Totally wrecked its shields and brought its hull down to 20%. I was beat up as well, shields down and lost 20% of my hull which meant I could stay in the zone for another hour or so
When in doubt, kill'em all and let God sort it out!